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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com If you believe government inflation rate numbers, inflation is 1.2%, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI.) That’s how much prices rose last year. Last week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified in front of the Republican controlled
You can write volumes on what is actually wrong with the economy. We have record foreclosures, the FDIC closing banks every weekend, high unemployment, enormous deficits, food banks running out of money, sour mortgage-backed securities and the list goes on and
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com In November 2010, the Federal Reserve announced a second round of economic stimulus commonly referred to as Quantitative Easing (QE2). The reason, according to the Fed, was “progress toward its objectives has been disappointingly slow.” So, to
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Housing starts are a tried and true barometer of business activity. If there was a real economic recovery going on, housing starts would be, at the very least, edging up. Please keep in mind the government is
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com For months now, the Federal Reserve has been worried about inflation being too low. So low, that the Fed claims it is unhealthy to the U.S. economy. When it announced its second wave of money printing (QE2) in
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I was shocked to see this headline from an Associated Press story yesterday, “Economists project home sales, construction to rise sharply in 2011 from extreme lows of 2010.” I was dumbfounded by the title of the article
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Just after the first of the year, the Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, Austan Goolsbee, emphatically pushed for Congress to raise the debt ceiling. Goolsbee said on the ABC Sunday talk show, “This Week,”
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com In case you have not heard, Fannie and Freddie (also known as Government-Sponsored Enterprises or GSE’s) settled a big lawsuit with Bank of America Monday. The case was settled for cents on the dollar, even though the
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (updated) From the very beginning of QE2, it was no secret the Federal Reserve wanted the stock market to rise. The Fed got its wish. Many people see the stock market increase of nearly 20% in a few short
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The mainstream media was at it again last week–putting a positive spin on the awful real estate market. The USA Today headline on top of the “Money” section last Thursday read “Optimism for home sales adds up.”
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I have been pretty hard on “CBS 60 Minutes” for doing fluff interviews with Fed Chief Ben Bernanke and not asking the hard questions that would be obvious to a freshman journalism student. In all fairness, I have to
One of the headlines in yesterday’s USA Today read, “Foreclosures take biggest dive in years in November.” That would make you think things are getting better in the rent vs. buy arena. When you read the story, you realize things are
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com It appears the CBS TV show 60 Minutes is the Federal Reserve’s go-to place to get its message out to the country. Fed Chief Ben Bernanke, basically, told America last night that the trillions he pumped out
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The Federal Reserve made a stunning revelation this week. It admitted to pumping $9 trillion into the economy because of the financial meltdown in 2008. It provided overnight loans to big U.S. banks with most of the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (revised) With all the attention stories such as WikiLeaks and Irish bailout have gotten the last few days, a bombshell judgment against Bank of America in a New Jersey foreclosure case has been overlooked. The judgment happened 2
